MINING FOR OPPOSITION
Lyndsey Nabata of the
Thompson Rivers University
chapter of the Kamloops
Area Preservation
Association shows where
she stands on the Ajax
debate during a Saturday,
Oct. 26, rally outside KGHM
Ajax’s office on Seymour
Street. About 200 people
arrived to demonstrate their
opposition to the proposed
copper and gold mine,
which would be developed
south of Aberdeen,
while about 25 pro-Ajax
individuals were also on
hand. To see more
photos, go online to
kamloopsthisweek.com.
Meanwhile, turn to page
A4 to learn why Kamloops
Physicians for a Healthy
Environment will be
releasing more information
on health-related data
connected to the
proposed project.
Allen Douglas/KTW

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Homicide victim was stabbed six times
By Tim Petruk
STAFF REPORTER

tim@kamloopsthisweek.com

Torbin Alec stabbed his close
friend, Jesse Seymour, six times
— including twice directly in the
heart — at a house party last summer.
So stated the Crown on
Monday, Oct. 28, as it laid out its
case against the 30-year-old Alec,
who is charged with second-degree
murder.
Seymour, 29, was killed on
July 15, 2012, after a fight outside
a home at 746 Columbia St. in
downtown Kamloops.
“A number of friends assembled
that night and, in the earlymorning hours, there was a fistfight between Jesse Seymour
and Torbin Alec,” special prosecutor Rob Bruneau said in his

opening remarks.
“They were, in fact, friends and
had known each other a long time.
“It’s alleged by the Crown that
Mr. Alec took a knife out and
stabbed Mr. Seymour six times,
twice through the heart area.
“Either two of those stabbings,
on their own, would have been sufficient to cause death.”
Bruneau said Alec then fled
the scene and went to his mother’s
North Kamloops apartment, where
police found him a short time later.
“In the apartment, they [police]
saw a bucket of bloody water
and saw a knife, a blood-covered
knife,” Bruneau said.
“They seized that knife and it’s
alleged that knife was the knife
used in the incident.”
The start of Alec’s trial was
delayed by more than an hour

because of a last-minute decision
by Alec’s defence team to switch
from a judge-and-jury trial to trial
by judge alone.
The first day of the trial saw
testimony from Dr. John Stefanelli,
the forensic pathologist at Royal
Inland Hospital who performed
Seymour’s autopsy the day after he
was murdered.
Stefanelli said Seymour was
stabbed six times — including
twice in the heart and once through
the liver.
He said Seymour lacked something common in stabbing victims
— defence wounds.
“The common sights for
defence wounds are on the hands
or the arms as people throw their
hands or arms up to block a blow,”
Stefanelli said.
“I did not see anything I would

define as a defence wound at all.”
Stefanelli also unfolded the
knife seized at the time of Alec’s
arrest — a five-inch hunting knife
— in the courtroom, agreeing that
the blade appeared to be consistent with the wounds he saw on
Seymour.
In his cross-examination of
Stefanelli, defence lawyer Jeremy
Jensen implied through questioning that Seymour could have been
on top of Alec when the wounds
were inflicted.
The doctor agreed it would
have been “awkward” for some
of the wounds to have been created, given their characteristics,
if Seymour had been lying on his
back when he was stabbed.
The second day of the trial,
today (Oct. 29), is expected to
see testimony from a number of

witnesses who were at the house
party, as well as from police officers at the scene and a toxicologist
who examined Seymour’s blood
after his death.
Bruneau said the blood was
found to have traces of alcohol and
drugs.
The trial is expected to run into
next week, but Bruneau said it
might move faster than anticipated
because there is no longer a jury.
Bruneau, a Kamloops defence
lawyer, was appointed special
prosecutor on Alec’s file because
Seymour was the estranged sonin-law of former B.C. Lt.-Gov.
Stephen Point.
At the time of Bruneau’s
appointment, the B.C. Criminal
Justice Branch said the decision
was made to avoid any potential
perception of improper influence.

A 50-year-old man was taken to Royal Inland Hospital in critical condition following an accident at Hugh Allan Drive and Harrison Way in Aberdeen on Saturday, Oct. 26. This Dodge
Ram pickup truck collided with a car, pinning the truck’s driver under his vehicle. Emergency personnel worked to free him from the wreckage. The investigation into the noon accident
continues. Allen Douglas photo/KTW

Call to respond to ‘home invasion’ leads to sleepy quartet
The caller claimed
three masked men
carrying shotguns
had stormed into a
Westmount house.
However, when
Kamloops Mounties
arrived at the Collingwood Drive rental home on
Sunday, Oct. 27, they found four residents — two
men and two women — and nary a shotgun-toting
thug in sight.
Sgt. Edward Preto said a caller known to
Mounties called police at 8:45 a.m., claiming a trio
of armed men had entered the home in the 1500block of Collingwood.
When Mounties arrived, they used a loudspeaker to call out the occupants. When there was
no response, officers and a police dog entered the
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inside, all of whom said they were asleep and
denied any knowledge about a home invasion
Preto said the residence is known to police.
Mounties found the person who made the call.
He claimed he was in the house when he called
police, but fled.
Mounties continue to investigate why the call
was made.

Crash sends man to hospital
Police are investigating an accident that left one
driver pinned under his vehicle on Saturday, Oct.
26, on Hugh Allan Drive.
A westbound Dodge Ram pickup hit an eastbound vehicle in front of Kamloops Seniors
Village, 1220 Hugh Allan Dr., and the impact
caused the truck to flip onto its side.
Emergency personnel found the 50-year-old
driver pinned with his head between the passengerside door and the road.

Is there a charge for drunk walking?
Two people have been ticketed under the Motor
Vehicle Act after they walked into traffic on the
Tans-Canada Highway and caused an accident.
The incident took place near the B.C. Wildlife
Park on the night of Saturday, Oct. 26, when two
people, both of whom Kamloops RCMP said were
drunk at the time, wandered onto the highway.
An eastbound vehicle that had to brake suddenly
to avoid hitting the pair was hit by a second car.
Police said no one was injured.
The two pedestrians were issued tickets for failing to walk on the left side of the highway, facing
traffic.

Firefighters used the jaws of life to raise the
vehicle and free the man, who was taken to Royal
Inland Hospital in critical condition.
The area was closed for several hours as officers
and a traffic analyst continued their investigation.

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Expect more Ajax info
By Tim Petruk
STAFF REPORTER

tim@kamloopsthisweek.com

Expect more information about the medical
professionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s take on Ajax
to be released in the coming weeks.
Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the message
from Jill Calder, spokeswoman for Kamloops
Physicians for a Healthy
Environment (KPHA),
which last week released
a damning statement,
obtained through a
freedom of information
request, on the controversial proposed mining
project
Calder said her group
is combing through stacks
of documents, noting the
initial release â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a quote
from a June 2012 email
in which Dr. Peter Barss,
former Interior Health
Authority medical-health
officer, called Ajax â&#x20AC;&#x153;a serious public-health hazardâ&#x20AC;?
and called for the province
to â&#x20AC;&#x153;remove it from further

City budget
talk tonight
The first public meeting on the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s budget
will take place tonight
(Oct. 29) at 7 p.m. at
Interior Savings Centre.
This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s meetings
will be held in a workshop-style format.
This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s focus is
on city service levels
and residents can share
with city councillors and
staff thoughts on service
levels across a broad
spectrum of areas.
Tonightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s public
meeting will be followed
by a daytime session
on Monday, Nov. 4, at
11:30 a.m., at McArthur
Island Sport and Event
Centre.
Residents can follow online and add to
the debate by going
to Twitter and using
the #kamloopsbudget
hashtag.
To view budgetmeeting documents ,
go online to kamloops.
ca/2014budget.
Input from these
public meetings will be
presented to city council
on Tuesday, Nov. 26,
prior to the introduction
of the five-year financial
plan.

considerationâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; is just a
sample of the information.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re working
through them to make
sure we have context,â&#x20AC;?
she said, adding her
group has also appealed
a number of redactions,
which are now being
reviewed.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have asked for
completion of the conversational loop.â&#x20AC;?
According to KPHA,
Barssâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; comments were
contained in an email to
Dr. Perry Kendall, B.C.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
chief medical-health
officer.
He was calling on
Kendall to make use of a
section of B.C.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Public
Health Act that would
have seen the project
deemed a health hazard.
Dr. Andrew Larder,
Interior Healthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s senior
medical-health officer,
said that would have been
an inappropriate use of
the section.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;He made that recog-

nition and then got feedback,â&#x20AC;? Larder said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;My feedback continued to be it was really not
an appropriate section to
be using at that time.â&#x20AC;?
Larder said the section is only for alreadypresent or impending
hazards, not speculative
ones based on opinion.
At the time of the
email, Barss was part of
a four-person IHA team
looking at the Ajax project from a public-health
perspective.
He was removed from
that position, by Larder,
shortly after the email
was sent.
Larder would not say
whether the email or
Barssâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; opinions on Ajax
had anything to do with
Barss being removed
from the post, calling it
â&#x20AC;&#x153;a personnel issue.â&#x20AC;?
â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was, and certainly
remains, Dr. Barssâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; opinion,â&#x20AC;? he said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;And it stimulated

debate within Interior
Health as far as what
will be the approach with
Ajax.â&#x20AC;?
Larder said Barssâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;
comments were based on
Barssâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; personal opinion
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; not that of the IHA.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Interior Healthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
position is that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not
at a stage in the process
where we can come to a
conclusion of what the
outcome of this mine
could be,â&#x20AC;? he said.
Calder said the documents KPHA obtained
through FOI show the
medical communityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
concerns about the mine,
which proponent KGHM
Ajax wishes to create
immediately south of
Aberdeen.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re still working
through a stack of documents,â&#x20AC;? Calder said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;But, it indicates to
us that there were grave
concerns from our profession to the project even
last year.â&#x20AC;?

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The $6.3 million
the provincial government spent in helping
create the NorKam
Trades Centre of
Excellence doesn’t mean
a replacement for South
Kamloops secondary is
low priority.
Premier Christie
Clark, in Kamloops
for several events on
Thursday, Oct. 24, said
it’s up to the KamloopsThompson school district
to make the case for
money to rebuild the
61-year-old structure
trustees have heard is no
longer adequate.
Clark, speaking to

the media at the official
launch of the renovated
Coast Kamloops Hotel
and Conference Centre in
Aberdeen, told KTW the
district will have to make
a case the need is there,
After that, Clark
said, the request will be
assessed along with all
other funding submissions.
The KamloopsThompson board of
education has been told
it will cost about $43
million to replace South
Kamloops secondary and
school district Supt. Terry
Sullivan said local MLAs
will be lobbied for support when the board is
ready to make its pitch.
Meanwhile, Clark,
who spoke about jobs
and the economy during

her remarks to the crowd
at the Coast Kamloops
Hotel and Conference
Centre, praised owner
Ron Mundi as an example of people working
to create jobs and boost
their economy.
Mundi, who bought
the hotel in 2011, said he
has put $25 million into
the venture, including
the $9-million renovation
celebrated with music,
food stations and a conference centre packed
with local business representatives.
Fred Legace, managing director at the
Kamloops Airport, said
the renovations have
turned the facility into
the kind of venue visitors
expect to find when they

come to Kamloops.
The renovation
included updating the
202 rooms, expanding the front entrance,
redesigning the lobby,
improving the conference space and upgrading
landscaping.
Charlie Bruce,
president of the 2013
B.C. Seniors Games
held earlier this year in
Kamloops, said the hotel
was host for participants
at the Games.
While still under
renovation, Bruce said
athletes and their families
were “very impressed”
with the hotel.
Mike Miltimore of
Lee’s Music noted the
conference centre is
“brighter and, in terms of

the aesthetics, it’s nice.
The light reflects off the
walls and it will be good
for events. It’s an excellent room.”

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Premier: Make case for South Kam

Clark says she has not been questioned by RCMP
Premier Christy Clark said she
and her staff have not been questioned by the RCMP as part of its
investigation into whether laws
were broken by the B.C. Liberal
government’s strategy to entice
ethnic voters to support the party
in the run-up to the May provincial election.
Asked during a media session
at the Coast Kamloops Hotel,
where Clark was helping celebrate a grand opening following

a renovation, the premier replied
with a simple, “No,” and nothing
more.
The probe, which involves a
special prosecutor, was announced
last month and comes as a result
of a letter sent to the RCMP by
NDP Leader Adrian Dix.
The government plan was
leaked by the NDP in March and
led to the resignation of Kim
Haakstad, former deputy chief of
staff for Clark, and Brian Bonney,

former communications director
for multiculturalism.
John Yap also stepped down as
minister responsible for multiculturalism.
A report by John Dyble,
deputy minister to the premier,
concluded the province’s Public
Service Standards of Conduct
had been violated from “passive
participation to active leadership
and execution of clearly inappropriate actions.”

Several dozen people
took a walk up Todd
Road on Friday, Oct. 25.
It’s a trip they take
often, walking to the
community park or up to
R.L. Clemitson elementary.
This time, however,
they weren’t worried
about cars whipping by
them at speeds much
higher than posted on
Barnhartvale Road.
Accompanying them
were representatives of
BCAA, city staff, city
councillors and RCMP
officers.
Councillors were
there to see firsthand
the situation, said Coun.
Nelly Dever, who was
also there in her capacity
of acting mayor.

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BCAA’s “guardian
angels” were there with
their halos, wings and
road signs declaring the
area a place where children play.
Earlier this year,
BCAA declared Todd to
be one of the 10 worst
roads in the province
and the only Kamloops
stretch on the list.
City staff were there
because they know organizers of the event will
be going to budget meetings, pitching a proposal
to upgrade the route.
And residents were
there because they want
something done to
improve safety for pedestrians, cyclists and horse
riders who use it every
day.
Organizer Christine
Watson said she was
delighted with the turn-

out, noting there were
residents at the event she
had never met.
She plans to raise the
issue at one of the two
upcoming budget meetings (the first will be held
at Interior Savings Centre
at 7 p.m. on Tuesday,
Oct. 29) and will also
pursue her discussion
with Kamloops-South
Thompson MLA Todd
Stone — also the province’s transportation
minister — about doing
something to make the
road safer.
Dever said she has
never received a complaint about the road but,
in her remarks to the
group, noted Coun. Pat
Wallace has spoken often
about safety there.
Dever told KTW she
was impressed with the
turnout and was looking

Kamloops is once again an
international champion in the
Communities in Bloom competition.
The Tournament Capital was
named champion in the International
Challenge (large category) at the 19th
edition of the Communities in Bloom
National & International Awards
Ceremonies, held on Saturday, Oct.
26, in Ottawa.

forward to walking with
the group.
She noted, however,
Barnhartvale is a rural
area and many people
move there for that rustic
environment that includes
a lack of sidewalks and
curbs.
Colleen Lepik, the
city’s transportation coordinator, said her department has made some
changes in the area to try
to reroute pedestrian and
riding traffic off Todd,
adding some gravel pathways to areas and creating drop-off and pick-up
zones at R.L. Clemitson
elementary.
She said speed-reader
boards have been placed
in the area in the past
to notify drivers of their
speed and will be back
some time next month in
the area of the school.

Kamloops bested communities
in Ontario, England and South
Korea.
Kamloops has previously been
the winner of several Communities
in Bloom competitions.
Meanwhile, Kamloops will host
the Communities in Bloom competition in 2015, having been awarded
the event on the weekend.

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GETTING THEIR GLOW ON
Kamloops Coun. Ken
Christian (right) joined
many others in promoting
the multi-agency Get Your
Glow On road-safety
campaign on Columbia
Street on Friday, Oct.
25. Get Your Glow On!
is aimed at reminding
all users of the road to
ensure they are visible to
one another as the days
become darker earlier.
Fore more information, go
online to kamloops.ca/
getyourglowon.
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The Grube remains an
oasis of educational support

O

RIGINALLY OPENED
as a school in 1968,
Overlander elementary
saw several transformations before becoming the Henry
Grube Education Centre in 1991.
At one time, the building
was used as a district school for
special-education students to learn
personal skills, in addition to classes on cooking and housekeeping.
When special-needs students
were integrated into regular classes, the building was no longer used
as a school.
Since then, the “Grube” has
graduated to become a meeting
centre, a resource hub and home to
student-support specialists.
The centre houses the district
library, where more than 8,400 new
items are catalogued each year.
This is where kits for classroom units are carefully inspected,
refilled and sent out.
Teachers can find equipment
and class kits for almost any topic
— from rock samples and hobbits
to the life cycle of a chicken; from
stethoscopes and drums to snowshoes.
Totes full of books, science
equipment and instruments are
constantly flowing in and out.
The centre’s print shop produces
posters, banners, booklets, certificates, forms and all of the district’s
formal reports.
Almost any type of resource
or printed material that a school
might need comes from the Henry
Grube Education Centre.

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In addition to resources, district
curriculum co-ordinators are available to provide support to their
teacher colleagues in areas such as
literacy, numeracy, fine arts, earlychildhood education, aboriginal
education, language and technology — just to name a few.
Supportive workshops developed by the curriculum co-ordinators are designed to teach new
ideas, share information and spark
enthusiasm.
Curriculum co-ordinators are the
go-to people for information and
help in each of their subject areas
and their passion is contagious.
It’s not just teachers that meet
here.
On average, the centre sees 150
groups, about 3,000 people, using
the meeting facilities each month.
Meeting rooms are equipped
with smart boards and videoconferencing equipment, which
allow groups to conduct professional development and connect
throughout the district and across
the world.
The classrooms in the former

school have been set up as office
spaces for student-support specialists.
Most of the centre’s professionals don’t spend much time at their
desks — they’re in the schools
working with children, families and
teachers to provide support.
Services are provided for visual
and hearing impairments, drug and
alcohol counseling, family counseling, English as a second language,
mental health and support for children in hospital.
The Kamloops-Thompson
school district has five school and
family consultants, four behaviourresource teachers, eight speechand-language pathologists, five
school psychologists and nine
special-education consultants and
resource teachers.
Barnaby the therapy dog also
works out of the centre.
The Henry Grube Education
Centre is a valuable resource to our
district.
In an era of neverending cutbacks, it’s nice to know this district still finds comprehensive and
meaningful ways to provide support to students, teachers and staff.

Kathleen Karpuk is a KamloopsThompson board of education
trustee. Trustee columns will run in
KTW on a monthly basis.
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Critics dismiss it as a spectacle organized to make it
appear as though residents actually have a say in how the city
spends their dollars.
Supporters note Kamloops is
far ahead of many B.C. communities in having the public get
involved in the budget process.
Regardless which side of the
debate you find yourself on, the
city will nevertheless begin the
next budget process
tonight (Oct.
29) with a
public-input
session in
the Parkside
Lounge at Interior Savings
Centre.
The format tonight (and at
a Nov. 4 daytime session at
McArthur Island Sport and
Event Centre) is workshopstyle, so residents attending
should have better access to
staff and city council members
and, theoretically, ample opportunity to ask questions and offer
suggestions.
The theme tonight is service
levels — this is your chance to
tell council and staff how often
you feel trash should be picked
up, when and how snow should
be removed, whether recreational-facility hours of operation
can be revamped to better serve
the public and save the city
some money.
If it involves a service the
city provides to you for a cost,
tonight and Nov. 4 are your
opportunities to give your input.
According to the city, these
public-information sessions will
help form the final budget, to
be approved by council next
spring.
There are property-tax increases in Kamloops every year.
Do you have an idea to curtail the ever-increasing amount
of money travelling from your
pocket to city hall?
If so, grab a jacket and head
down to ISC tonight.

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Re: Mental Health
Matters column: :
Misunderstanding
mental illness —
again:
“To quote the column: ‘Australia, Great
Britain and Japan
banned personal ownership of many types of
weapons in the 1970s
and 1980s after mass
shootings occurred in
their countries.
‘They have not had
a single mass shooting since that time,
although it would be
ludicrous to say there is
no more mental illness
in those places.’
“This statement is
false.
“There have been
mass shootings in
Britain and Australia
after the 1980s.
“In fact, the latest
in Britain was in 2010,
when 12 people were
killed and 11 people
were injured.
“Thirty-five people
were killed and 24
people were injured in
Australia’s Port Arthur
shooting in 1996.”
— posted by
Billy

About those Kamloops city council pay raises . . .
Editor:
I wish all of us who
work in the real world
could “vote” to raise
our wages whenever we
wanted.
I also see councillors are signalling their
interest in reducing the
tax burden for heavy
industry, which would
mean passing on that
burden to taxpayers.
Just how deep does
council think our pockets are?
Could I please take
back my city councillor
vote?
I see now I made a
mistake.
Gloria Goode
Kamloops

Editor:
Coun. Donovan Cavers blames others for his not
being able to create a financial foundation in his life to
purchase a first home. Why did he run for council?
Is it the taxpayers’ responsibility to provide a living wage for a volunteer position? Is it the taxpayers’
responsibility to financially supplement and offset the
career choices of council members?
If the catering business doesn’t provide the right
income or time allowance required by a council position, perhaps a retooling of priorities is in order.
Is it the taxpayers’ problem some council members
feel overwhelmed by the workload of the position?
Have all these truths ever been hidden from those running for office? No.
Maybe it is good this wage and time-commitment
matter is coming out now for others to ponder before
running for office in the next election.
For the effort and time put into council positions,
remuneration is never enough. We run for office to
do good works — some do it for ego, some from the
heart. Don’t get it? Then don’t run (again).
Dennis Paget
Kamloops

Editor:
The pay raise voted in by an incomplete number
of council members present for voting is too much.
The matter should be voted on again when all
council members are present.
If I were younger, I would run for council but,
when I was younger, I did not because I knew I did
not have enough time and income to invest to do a
good job.
I find it atrocious that these raises are voted in
when councillors fully knew remuneration and benefits (none) when they ran for office.
Comparisons to other communities is not valid
research as other cities have many more or other
problems not comparable to Kamloops.
As a senior, I am struggling to keep up with
ever-increasing taxation for various items approved
by city council.
These increases will eventually force me out of
my home since my OAP and CPP do not go up by
the huge percentage enjoyed by city council.
Sigi White
Kamloops

Chase cannot afford proposed pellet plant
Editor:
All citizens of Chase need to wake up.
Most residents know about the proposed rezoning and industrialization of
certain properties within town limits.
But, many are not aware of the extent
to which it could affect each and every
resident if approved.
In a misguided attempt to bring in a
few more tax dollars, Chase city council
is considering putting at risk our peaceful
and healthy lifestyle.
For the sake of a handful of jobs, we
will become subject to land, air and water
pollution.
No one is immune from the effects of
pollution. It knows no boundaries.
The low cloud cover that commonly
covers the Chase area, especially in the
winter, will contain and distribute industrial emissions and carcinogenic diesel
residues.
This will not just be from the proposed
pellet factory, but from the increased
truck and train traffic required to service
this industry.
The increased constant noise and fall-

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out could devalue many homes by hundreds of thousands of dollars.
This in turn would bring down the
value of all of our homes. Can we
afford to let this happen? There are even
rumours of a lawsuit being filed against
city council for allowing and encouraging
this.
The dirty track record of the pellet
industry is not hard to find. The files of
complaints of pollution and the industry’s
unwillingness or inability to clean up its
messes are readily available.
During recent interviews with business owners that neighbour the current
pellet operations in Williams Lake, it was
revealed that the industry has done nothing to rectify the problems it creates.
Consider the fallout of sawdust particulates into the surrounding river and lake,
onto our homes and on our landscape.
Proponents can say they are “state-of
the-art” all they want, but I don’t buy it.
The Titanic was also considered stateof-the-art. It means nothing.
The sentiment that Chase is dying is
not true. The population of Chase in 2001

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was 2,460. Today, it is 2,600.
Just because a few businesses have
failed does not mean we are on the road
to destruction.
Furthermore, the introduction of a
small number of jobs is not going to
make any appreciable difference to our
economic situation.
Unfortunately for our businesses, we
live close to large shopping centres and
their prices are very attractive. This is not
going to change. We are a retirement/bedroom community and, apparently, there
are more of us as the population continues to increase.
I implore residents of this small and
caring community to pull together.
We must protect each other and say no
to the proposed rezoning and the introduction of industry so close to our homes.
You can write to the Chase village
office at Box 440 or call 250-679-3238.
Make your voices heard. You may be
the next one who needs help.
Ellen Blackburn
Chase

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Conscience leads to plea
After living with a guilty conscience for a
decade, a Kamloops man has avoided jail after
admitting to a sexual assault he committed in
2003.
Brett Lindsay pleaded guilty to sexual touching,
an offence stemming from an incident that took
place while he was babysitting in Fort acMurray,
Alta., 10 years ago.
The 29-year-old’s sentencing took place on
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Crown prosecutor Frank Caputo said Lindsay
was babysitting a nine-year-old girl at the time.
Lindsay was handed a 12-month conditionalsentence order, followed by a year-long probation
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The Jackal is
tamed, left a
bloody mess
in the ring, there’s no
need to sulk back to
Kamloops, tail planted
firmly between legs.
There’s always
tomorrow for Jason
Szakal, one of Tom
LaRoche’s fighters —
and his future didn’t
always look so bright.
“Tom’s like a second
father to me. I have no
idea what life would
look like without him
and the gym,” said
Szakal, who remembers the first day he
walked into LaRoche
World Gung Fu and
Kickboxing.
“I was having family
troubles. We’ll leave it
at that. I’ve been coming here basically every
day for just coming up
on five years. It’s been a
second home.”
The time spent
sweating under the scrutiny of LaRoche, a fourtime world kickboxing
champion, has already
paid off for Szakal,
who holds two national
titles — the middleweight Canadian Sport

Muay Thai belt and
the 75-kilogram Sanda
championship.
Next up is the biggest
test of his career.
The Jackal, his moniker when the bell rings,
is in Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia, for the World
Wushu Championships,
which get underway on
Saturday, Nov. 2.
He’ll be competing in
his weight class for the
world Sanda championship. The tournamentstyle competition will
feature fighters from
about 100 countries.
Szakal has become
the proverbial carrot
LaRoche dangles in
front of his new recruits
— and a Grade A example of the good his gym
can do.
“We’re right smackdab in the middle of
North Kamloops and I
believe we’re here for a
reason,” said LaRoche,
whose martial-arts centre is located at 1110
Tranquille Rd.
“Jason could have
gone the other way.
There’s so much potential for drugs and all
the other crap that’s out
there.
“His training helped
give him that focus,
bringing him into a

positive atmosphere and
helping him get through
that challenging time.”
Szakal was living
alone in an apartment
when he was 15 —
“That was a wake-up
call,” he said — when
LaRoche got a hold of
him.

It didn’t take long
before he was turning
off the lights on his
new apprentice, kicking Szakal out of the
gym and forcing him to
knock off for the night.
Those long evenings
would remind LaRoche
of his own martial-arts

upbringing, travelling most weekends
to Vancouver from
Princeton to train in an
empty lot with a local
gung-fu instructor.
“It was almost like a
movie,” LaRoche said.
“And that’s when
Bruce Lee’s Enter the

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the hit show Kung Fu
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“As a teenager, we
experimented with our
stuff. My wife knows
my stories but, along the
way, people come along
and impact you. That’s
why I can recognize and

see it in my students.”
In 1976, LaRoche
moved to the River City
and began training at a
Briar Avenue gym with
Barry Adkins, the next
person who steered him
away from what he calls
“the dark path.”
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The North Shore is
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always has been and it
always will be.
It’s thanks to our board
of directors, organizing
committees, community
members, project sponsors and, in particular, our
enthusiastic businesses
that we continue to be so
successful.
We have plenty of fun
events this fall and winter.
On Halloween, participating North Shore businesses will be welcoming
little ghosts and goblins
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this section for more information.
If you are a nonprofit or business, we are
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In partnership with the
Kamloops Chamber of
Commerce and the North
Shore-based Kamloops
Innovation Centre, it’s a
great event to learn from
the best on how to start or
expand your social media
footprint.
We want to give a special thanks to the great
North Shore community,
which is rallying behind
the businesses who have
been affected by the
delays in the Tranquille
Road upgrades.
The new multi-use path
and lighting upgrades are
great infrastructure projects for the North Shore
and we can’t wait to see
the finished product.
Make sure you sign up
for our new e-newsletter
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follow our Facebook page
to stay in touch about our
events and initiatives.

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Community is welcoming
a new addition to the family in July 2014.
The Mayfair building is
expected to be completed
then, joining the already
existing RiverBend Suites
and Manor.
“The biggest thing I
think you’ll find if you
talk to residents is the
sense of community,”
said Kate Calhoun, who
handles sales and rentals at
RiverBend and Mayfair.
“They belong somewhere. They have neighbours and friends that
they’ve made in the building.”
More than 50 per cent
of the suites at Mayfair
have already been
sold. There are rental
options available in the

RiverBend building.
“The first thing we talk
about is what you want,”
Calhoun said.
“Do you want to prepare your own meals or are
you done cooking?
“Then we talk about
budget. Not everybody’s
got $1,400 a month for a
one-bedroom or $2,000
plus utilities for a twobedroom.”
There are Manor portions in both buildings that
focus on a different market, based on income.
Those units don’t have
kitchens or in-suite laundry, both features included
in most other RiverBend
and Mayfair suites.
“RiverBend is focused
at independent seniors,”
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55-plus facility.

“They have absolute
independence in their
apartment, but they can
take advantage of the
meals and the services provided in the community on
a casual basis or on a regular basis. It’s up to them.”
There are programs
available each day for
seniors.
“We have an activity
director,” Calhoun said.
“They go to the activity club. They play bingo.
They play bridge. They
play crib. They get exercise.
“They don’t have to
leave if they don’t want
to, which is lovely in the
winter.”
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“He couldn’t kick me out
of the gym,” LaRoche said.
“Those were the influences
for me.”
The Chinese gung-fu
master takes a no-nonsense
approach toward substance
abuse.
“I’m very strict at my
gym,” LaRoche said. “If I
know people are doing stuff,
I confront them with it.
“Yeah, we teach them
fighting and all that, but
really what we want to do
is provide a positive atmosphere for the kids.”
The talkative instructor
was proud to hear Szakal
refer to him as a father-like
figure — an influence like
the ones he had growing up.
“That’s how I feel about
Jason, too,” LaRoche said.
“I know his dad really
well and he says, ‘You’re
like another dad to him.’ He
knows that.”
There are students who
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LaRoche
admitted:
“It’s kind of
like a parent
whose kids
are out doing
the wrong
stuff, but I
have a limited role. A
lot of times
parents come
in with the
kids and say,
‘Do something with
them because
I can’t.’ You
do what you
can.”
He chooses to focus on
the success stories, like
Szakal, who right about now
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nerves.
“I’d describe the feeling before fighting as being
really anxious,” Szakal said.
“I don’t really know what
the level of competition is
going to be. Some of these

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Like any good corner
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“Are we going to change
everybody?” LaRoche
asked. “No, but I’ve heard
stories over the years that
make it all worthwhile.
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Film and new
media will share the
spotlight with businesses and emerging
artists when the annual
Mayorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Gala for the
Arts presents its awards
on Jan. 18 at the Coast
Kamloops Hotel and

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Nominees for the
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Adam MacKay-Smith.
Nominees for business in the arts are
Mastermind Studios,

The awards were
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seen in nearly two
months.
Sept. 9 was the
last time Samantha
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with her circle of
friends and family,
according to police.
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Cpl. Cheryl Bush
said investigators are
still working the case
and following leads.

SAMANTHA PAUL:
Kamloops woman has not
been seen since Sept. 19.

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and she won gold and silver medals
at the Grenoble Olympics in 1968.
Throughout her nine-year skiing
career, Raine won 17 Canadian
championship titles.
Currently, Raine works to promote the
development of ski tourism in British
Columbia. She is the director of skiing
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and put in effort and hard work.
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LOCAL NEWS

Caribbean ﬂavour to Nov. 9 fundraiser
Years ago, a
Canadian teacher met
Gail Morong’s sister
and helped her leave her
native Trinidad and come
to Canada for an education.
A few years later,
Morong’s sister returned
to help her make the
same trip. And, now,
the TRU instructional
designer is again paying
the opportunity forward
— with a bit of a twist.
Morong said she met
a young woman at TRU,
also from the Caribbean
and not from a family
with a lot of disposable
income to put into the
woman’s education.
Nevertheless, she had
saved, complied with all
the requirements to be
an international student
at Thompson Rivers
University and was well
into her studies when she
became ill, was hospitalized and had emergency
surgery.
She missed classes,
bills piled up and,
because there are restrictions on when and where
international students
can work, she found it
difficult to find a parttime job to provide
some income, eventually — once her health

returned — finding work
at a fast-food restaurant.
The student, however,
needs some money to
take two courses needed
to finish her education so,
Morong said, she’s putting the skills she learned
together with the women’s common bond of the
Caribbean and cooking
up some of her culture’s
food for a fundraising
dinner on Saturday,
Nov. 9, at Southwest
Community Church, 700
Hugh Allan Dr., from
6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
The evening includes
entertainment by the
Campbell Sisterz in
Clearwater.
But, Morong said, the
focus is the food, something she suspects a lot
of Kamloopsians haven’t
had much opportunity to
partake of at most restaurants in the city.
She said she’s also
involved because sometimes it’s good to see the
person who will benefit
from a charitable donation, to connect and
immediately understand
how offering a hand
up may be all a person
needs.
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or order tickets, email
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hotmail.com or call 250682-1712.

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The 2013 Pacific Western Athletic Association champions — the TRU WolfPack’s men and
women. Both teams will compete for a national title. Brent Dunlop photos

Alanna Bekkering is pictured in action at the 2012 Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association championships in P.E.I.
She will get another shot at national gold this year with the TRU WolfPack women, who placed first at the Pacific
Western Athletic Association championships, which wrapped up in Nanaimo on Sunday, Oct. 27. TRU’s men also booked
a spot at nationals with a provincial-championship victory on Vancouver Island. KTW file photo

AMLOOPS
has two
university
soccer teams
of which it can be
proud.
The TRU WolfPack
men’s and women’s
footy squads will be
heading next month to
the Canadian Collegiate
Athletic Association
(CCAA) championships
after winning provincial
titles in Nanaimo on
Sunday, Oct. 27.
TRU’s men won a
thrilling 2-1 victory in
penalty kicks over the
Douglas College Royals
of New Westminster
in the Pacific Western
Athletic Association

championship game.
The WolfPack
women won gold by
blanking the Quest
Kermodes of Squamish
1-0 in the title tilt.
Co-head coaches
Sean Wallace and John
Antulov will bring their
charges to St. John,
N.B., for the CCAA
tournament, which gets
underway on Nov. 6.
Meanwhile,
WolfPack women’s
bench boss Tom
McManus and his team
will be competing for a
national title in Surrey.
For the first time in
school history, both the
men’s and women’s
teams will be heading
in the same year to the
Canadian championship.
Next season, the pro-

grams are making the
jump to the Canadian
Interuniversity Sports
ranks.

The men’s story
With the championship on the line, Ashley
Raynes was money in
the bank.
The midfielder from
Manchester, England,
stepped up to the penalty spot knowing a goal
would seal victory for
the Pack.
He made no mistake,
firing a low shot past
the Royals’ goalkeeper,
sending the WolfPack
into a frenzy.
Raynes also scored
TRU’s goal in regulation
time.
The WolfPack were
forced to overcome

adversity when PacWest
player of the year Justin
Wallace of Kamloops
was injured in a 2-1
semifinal win over the
host Vancouver Island
University Mariners.
He was in the hospital on Sunday after
undergoing surgery to
repair a bleeding spleen,
an injury suffered on
a play that showed
“a lack of respect
and well-being for
another player,” according to Sean Wallace,

Justin’s father.
TRU went down to
10 men at about the
50-minute mark of
Sunday’s final when
midfielder Brandon
Mendez was ruled
to have intentionally
stepped on an opponent.
He was shown a red
card.
Douglas tied the
match in the 65th minute, but TRU and goalkeeper Travis Froehlich
were able to shut the
door the rest of the way.
Three WolfPack players earned awards.
Froehlich was named
the tournament’s best
goalie, River City product Braeden Burrows
was the playoff MVP
and Nolan Wallace, also
of Kamloops, was the

top defender.
Justin Wallace is
expected to remain in
hospital in Victoria until
the middle of the week.
He will not be available to play at nationals,
but he will travel with
the team.
“This was a team
effort and I have to commend the boys for digging down and coming
up with a solid effort,”
Sean Wallace said.

The women’s story
TRU put a 5-1 beating on Langara College
of Vancouver in the
semifinal, but ran into
a much more game
opponent in Quest in the
gold-medal match.
Swirling winds made
it tough for either team

to produce offence on
Sunday.
Katie Sparrow of
Kamloops scored for the
WolfPack in the 38th
minute and the goal held
up.
Laura Smylie, who
scored a hat-trick in
the semifinal victory,
was named the tournament MVP, with Alanna
Bekkering, also from
Kamloops, earning top
midfielder honours.
“The girls did
what they had to do,”
McManus said.
“The conditions were
similar to what we faced
at last year’s nationals
in P.E.I. — a howling
wind. But, the girls were
smart and efficient and
did their job.”
— with files from TRU

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SPORTS

Blazers in Western Conference cellar
The exercise in
patience continues for
fans of the Kamloops
Blazers.
Kamloops is last in
the Western Conference
standings after suffering
a pair of weekend losses at Interior Savings
Centre.
The Vancouver
Giants downed the
Blazers 4-1 on Sunday,
Oct. 27, a night
after Everett edged
Kamloops 7-6 in overtime on Saturday, Oct.
26.
Next up for the
Blue and Orange are
the Spokane Chiefs,
who are in town on
Wednesday, Oct. 30.
Game time is 7 p.m.

Sam Grist of the Kamloops
Blazers caught Mason
Geertsen of the Vancouver
Giants with a right hand in
this fight, but the visitors
from the Lower Mainland
had the last laugh at
Interior Savings Centre on
Sunday, Oct. 27, going home
with a 4-1 victory.

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Storm on top
The Kamloops
Storm opened up a
10-point lead in their
division with a pair
of weekend wins at
McArthur Island Sport
and Event Centre.
Kamloops topped
the Chase Heat 7-4 in
Kootenay International
Junior Hockey League
play on Saturday, Oct.
26.
Chase is 10 points
behind Kamloops in the
Doug Birks Division.
The Storm earned
a 5-4 overtime victory
over 100 Mile House
on Friday, Oct. 25,
with Daniel Buchanan
notching the winning
goal for the home team.
Kamloops is playing
hometown 100 Mile on
Wednesday, Oct. 30,
and hosting a rematch
at McArthur on Friday,

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Nov. 1. Game time is
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Peaks praised
Sun Peaks Resort
and its mountain community has been ranked
No. 2 in Canada’s best
overall resort category
in the SBC Resort
Guide.
Whistler earned top
spot.

Canadian resorts
are ranked based on a
survey of Snowboard
Canada, SBC Skier,
SBC Women’s
Snowboard Annual
and SBC Resort Guide
magazine editors.
Each editor awards
points in different categories, which are then
tallied to produce the
standings.

“To be recognized
by a group of people
so involved and knowledgeable in Canada’s
ski-and-snowboard
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PANTHER PUNISHMENT
The Vernon Panthers
proved they are the
team to beat in B.C.
High School Football’s
Okanagan AA Varsity
Conference with a 36-6
win over the Valleyview
Vikings at Hillside
Stadium on Friday, Oct.
25. Lliam Wishart is
pictured running in for
Valleyview’s only
touchdown. The Vikings
are third in the
conference, behind firstplace Vernon and secondplace Clarence Fulton of
Vernon. Clarence Fulton
dumped Westsyde
secondary 44-22 on
Friday.
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2014
BUDGET
Putting It All Together
City of Kamloops have made budget
meetings more personal with a chance to
speak one-on-one with City Council and
staff. This format continues to work well
and we invite you, the taxpayer, to be a part
of these discussions.
Last year’s feedback suggested we host
budget meetings earlier in the process.
With that in mind we’re happy to announce
two upcoming meetings and listen to your
thoughts and ideas about our City Service
Levels.
Social media continues to play a role and
our Twitter hash tag, #kamloopsbudget
will field any online comments.

ESSE JONES ISN’T NATURALLY A
competitive person, but that doesn’t mean he
isn’t planning to enjoy himself next month
when he hits the stage in Niagara Falls as a
national finalist in this year’s Senior Star competition.
After all, there’s a live band to work with.

“The producer and I are working out an arrangement by email,
sending charts back and forth,”
Jones told KTW prior to heading to
Ontario.
For the first round of the competition, he’d backed his performance of Georgia on my Mind,
made famous by Ray Charles,
himself on his keyboard.
Senior Star, put on by the
Chartwell Retirement Residences,
follows the model of most modern

singing competitions with an agerelated twist.
While competitors don’t have to
live at a Chartwell residence, they
do have to be 65 or older.
They’re also allowed to compete as singers, musicians or both.
Sharon Henderson, Chartwell’s
vice-president of communication,
said the seven-year-old contest
was first dreamed up when the
company was looking for a way to
celebrate seniors’ month.

“We thought, why not celebrate
seniors who typically — it was sort
of in the heyday of the American
Idol, Canadian Idol — who typically aren’t involved in those kind
of open competitions,” she said.
“We wanted to create a stage
for any age, so to speak, and give
an opportunity to seniors who had
either been performers their entire
lives or some people who will
say, ‘I’ve only even sung in the
shower.’”
Jones definitely falls into the
first category.
A longtime professional musician, Jones worked in radio and
television, played in bands and
spent years touring as a self-described “lounge lizard.”
When he gave up touring
and later moved to Kamloops in
the mid-1990s, Jones took on a
job teaching vocals at Long and
McQuade, where he still has nearly
40 students.

He also spent three years judging the Kamloops Senior Star
before friends convinced him to
step to the other side of the microphone in 2013.
But, though all that, there’s been
little in the way of competition.
“One of the questions they
asked us on our questionnaire for
the national was ‘what do you feel
or expectt from this thing?’” Jones
said.
“And I said, I’m not really sure.
It’s a whole new venue for me to
be a contestant. The last time I
was a contestant I was in my early
teens and did vocal for festivals.”
Contestants for the national
round of Senior Star, which takes
place on Nov. 5, are selected from
45 regional competitions which
take place across the country.
A panel of celebrity judges,
including performer Gordie Tapp
and musical theatre actress Patsy
Gallant, look over top-two finish-

ers from each competition and
select 10 favourites to make the
trip to the final round.
“This is an amazing night,” said
Henderson. “It’s black tie, gala
performance. It’s taped and broadcast on national television.
“We produce a DVD. And the
first-place winner wins $5,000.”
The competition has been good
to Kamloops performers in the past.
In 2009, vocalist Jeann Rodrigue
took home the national prize.
Jones isn’t so concerned with
following in her footsteps, but said
he’s looking forward to meeting
his fellow performers and hitting
the stage on the big night.
“I compete against myself,”
he said. “If you’re signing, that’s
great. I’m all for you singing. I
don’t compete. So I can’t go into
it looking at it like it’s a competition. I’m going into it looking at it
like it’s an opportunity to sing for
myself.”

Kelsey Gilker plans on taking her audience on
a magical, mystical tour back into their childhood
when she performs at the High Wire Festival.
The fourth-year Thompson Rivers University
student will be behind the curtain for The Shadow
Circus, a 10-minute shadow-puppet show.
She’s loathe to reveal the plot — “I want it to be
a bit of a secret” — but said the goal is to make her
audience feel like they’re going back to when they
were six or seven years old “and everything was
possible.”
The medium is new to the theatre-arts student
but it’s one she’s wanted to learn more about and
the festival, a new presentation by Western Canada
Theatre, gives her the chance to do so.
The festival is a series of short new works
being performed at Pavilion Theatre beginning on
Wednesday, Oct. 30, and continuing Friday, Nov. 1,
and Saturday, Nov. 2, at 8 p.m.
Other acts include:
• Sleep No More . . . The Musical, 15 minutes
of “interactive Hitchcockian, Shakespearean, noir
fusion Broad musical,” according to its description
at the WCT website, wctlive.ca. It is directed by
Robin Nichol and Heidi Verwey, with stage managers Allison Clow and Christine Leroux and starring
Alicia Ashcroft and Dan Ondang.
• Penned, a 10-minute solo journey into a tiny,

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whimsical world of words created by Heather
Cant.
• Oceanna: The Ugly Mermaid, a five-minute
play written by Ashcroft and its actor, Sheanna
Beau James. It is described as a glimpse at the Sea
of Atlantis courtesy of a Coney Island side show.
• Ballad of the Burning Lady, 13 minutes of coexistence between the audience and actors/creators
Kirk Smith and Mack Gordon in a room after a
crime has been committed in Kamloops in 1905.
• To Do, created by Amy Baskin and Anita
Wittenberg, with Baskin directing and Wittenberg
acting. It’s about a dozen minutes of lists and tasks
and trying to get life into sync, knowing in the end,
there will still be work left to do.
Tickets are $20 for adults and $18 for seniors
and students. They are available at the Kamloops
Live box office, 1025 Lorne St., 250-374-5483,
kamloopslive.ca.

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By Dale Bass
STAFF REPORTER

We are grateful to everyone who attended BDC Kamloops
Business Centre 40th Anniversary Celebration luncheon.
A special thank you to our Chief Economist, Mr. Pierre Cléroux,
for his message and presentation.
On behalf of the Kamloops Food Bank, a big thank you to all
for your generous contribution of $1,468 raised during the event.

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Notes on: Blackdaze
■ WHO: Darren Jones on bass, Richard
Graham on vocals and drums, his brother Russell
on vocals and Todd Flodstrom on guitar.
■ WHAT: An Ozzy Osbourne/Black Sabbath
tribute band.
■ WHEN: The band got together about two
years ago, but really started to kick it up about
18 months ago.
■ WHERE: They play a lot of gigs in the city
and throughout B.C. — Village Green Hotel in
Vernon, the Shark Club in Vancouver, for example
— but the band members are stoked about their
upcoming free Halloween show at the Rock ‘N
Firkin Sports Pub and Grill, 726 Sydney Ave.
■ WHY: Well, that’s where it gets interesting.
The four knew each other from previous bands,
other bands they’d heard of and the simple tightness of Kamloops’ music community. When they
started, Jones said, they all contributed songs
they thought should be on their set lists “and, of

the 20 songs we decided on, we realized more
than half were either Ozzy or Black Sabbath.”
Thus, a tribute band was created, one that, courtesy of their “crazy gear-hoarding sound man”
Paul Cuthbert, is a huge show with lights, lasers
and costumes to create a show featuring the
music Osbourne’s bandmate Tony Iommi once
declared would be heavier than Led Zeppelin.
Jones said the discography to choose from has
so many songs it’s hard to know what to include,
but Blackdaze tries to do all the hits. “The fans
are totally into it,” Jones said, “and they’re all
diehard fans and they know all the songs so we
just play as much as we can.”
■ HOW: You can find out more about the band
on its Facebook page, by searching Blackdaze on
Facebook, or by doing the same on YouTube.
Notes On is a feature that focuses on local
musicians. To be added to the roster in coming
publications, email dale@kamloopsthisweek.com.

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Nerissa Haynes and seven-month-old daughter Neveah got into the spirit of the spooky season on the weekend as they took part in Western Canada
Theatre’s annual Family Halloween Dance Party at Pavilion Theatre. To see many more photos from the fun event, go online to kamloopsthisweek.com
and click on the “Community” tab. Allen Douglas/KTW

FREDERICK
BROADHURST JOYCE
8 January, 1941 - 23 October, 2013
It is with regret that the passing
of Fred Joyce is announced.
Born
in
Montreal,
Quebec, Fred came
to BC via Edmonton.
Graduating from West
Van High School in 1959
Fred initially went into
banking. He met and
married his ﬁrst wife Betty
when at the Castlegar branch
of the Bank of Montreal. They had one son
Steven. Opening his own business in Kamloops,
FB Joyce Trucking, he ran a successful asphalt
transport business until 1988 following Betty’s
death. Fred then moved into transportation
of petroleum products for Chevron and West
Can prior to retiring. Fred married Dorothy in
1991. He will be sorely missed by Dorothy and
his 4-legged buddies – Brandy, Missy, Abbie
and PussPuss.
No service at Fred’s request. If friends desire
there will be an open house at Fred’s home on
Saturday, November 2, 2013 between 2 and 4
for a time of fellowship and memory sharing.
In lieu of ﬂowers
donations can be made to the
SPCA in Fred’s memory
Schoenings Funeral Service
250-374-1454
www.schoeningfuneralservice.com

Do you want to really get into the Halloween
spirit this year?
Kamloops This Week is collecting spooktacular
addresses for boys and ghouls to visit this Halloween
season.
If you have some places where thrills and chills
are on the menu, let us know by sending the info via
email to editor@kamloopsthisweek.com.
Here is what we have gathered thus far:
• Looking for someone who goes the extra mile,
for people who can really make the hair on the back
of your neck stand up? Well, you had better be prepared for a good scream if you visit Dwayne and
Trish’s Zombie Apocalypse Haunted House.
It can be found at 638 Alberni Ave. (behind
Canadian Tire on the North Shore) from 6 p.m. to 10
p.m. on Halloween night.
This event is recommended for those ages 12 and
up — but enter at your own risk!
• 1365 Columbia St. in downtown Kamloops
This address is also taking donations for the Western
Karate Academy Christmas Cheer Fund between
6 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. on Oct. 29 and Oct. 30, and
between 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. on Halloween night.
• Sixth Avenue and Pine Street in South
Kamloops.
• 633 Brentwood Ave. and 649 Brentwood Ave. in
North Kamloops (behind Safeway).
• The City of Kamloops is offering a free
Halloween skate at Valleyview Arena on Wednesday,
Oct. 30, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. The Fabulously Freaky
Halloween Skate is sponsored by Tim Hortons.

Her Journey’s Just Begun
Don’t think of her as gone away,
Her journey’s just begun.
Life holds so many facets,
This earth is only one.
Just think of her as resting,
From the sorrows and the tears,
In a place of warmth and comfort,
Where there are no days and years.
Think how she must be wishing,
That we could know today,
How nothing but our sadness,
Can really pass away.
And think of her as living,
In the hearts of those she touched,
For nothing loved is ever lost;
And she was loved so much.
E. Brenneman

B6  TUESDAY, October 29, 2013

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Time to get your lawn ready for winter And don’t forget your house, either
Preparing your lawn
for a Canadian winter
can be a tricky business,
even for the most-experienced gardener.
Follow these three
tips early in the fall and
watch the fruits of your
labour blossom after a
long, cold winter:
• Top-dress your
lawn with a thin layer
of compost or good
garden soil and add
grass seed appropriate
to your lawn condition
and local growing
area.
This will help to
regenerate your lawn
and take care of any
thinned-out areas.
Mix the compost
into the existing soil
before seeding or laying sod, or spread it in a
thin layer raked over the
existing lawn.
• Over-seeding, or
regularly spreading
grass seed on your
lawn, will ensure it
remains dense.
Keep the new seed
well-watered until the

new grass is established
• Fertilizing promotes vigorous growth
the following spring.
Clippings left on the
lawn are rich in nitrogen and provide free
and easy fertilization.
Make sure you
spread fertilizers evenly

and thinly to avoid
clumps.
A healthy lawn
reduces the need to
apply pesticides for the
control of weeds and
insect pests.
More information on
this topic is available
from Health Canada’s

Winter is just around the corner
and it’s important to get the exterior
of your house ready for the cold
months ahead.
Heavy snow, cold winds and icy
weather can damage your property
and lead to expensive repair bills
down the road.
To get your property winter ready,
we’ve asked the experts at Canadian
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easy and important tips for homeowners:
• Inspect your roof: Inspect your
roof with binoculars to ensure your
shingles are not turning up at the
edges, worn or falling off.
Damage to shingles can cause
melted snow and ice to seep into your
home, causing leaks and potentially
expensive water damage.
• Clean your gutters: Remove
any leaves, twigs and buildup from
your gutters to allow water to run off
properly and prevent water damage.
• Put away outdoor furniture,
playground equipment and trampoline sets: Winter storms are often
accompanied by high winds that can
damage these items.
Since you are unlikely to use outdoor furniture and play equipment
until the spring, look for a place to
store them.
• Prepare your trees and garden:
Protect young trees and plants by

wrapping them in plastic guards or
burlap.
Doing so will extend their life and
prevent animals and rodents from
eating your shrubs during the colder
months.
Also be sure to remove fallen
leaves and debris from your yard to
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and part of the company’s
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What this means, for
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Company president Johan
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AUTO MARKET

Ford Focus stays on hot-streak in 2013 sales
title for the first half of
2013.
In addition, the
Fiesta ranks as the
fourth best-selling
vehicle — making Ford
the only brand to have
two nameplates among
the global top five bestsellers, according to
Ford analysis of Polk
global vehicle-registration data.
Ford Focus grew
20 per cent in the first
half of 2013 from the
same period last year,
to 589,709 vehicle
registrations, driven
primarily by increasing
demand from customers in China and other
Asian countries.
Focus in China is up
137 per cent from 2012,
to a total of 202,380
vehicles, making China
the single biggest global

Mercedes C-Class sets
new interior standard
Mercedes-Benz is writing the next chapter of
success with the all-new C-Class.
An interior with an exciting, high-class ambience, touchpad and head-up display, the lightest
bodyshell in the segment, extensive safety features,
a new agile and comfortable suspension, as well
as GPS-sensitive air conditioning, underscore the
inner values of the new C-Class.
Overall, its innovations, refined equipment and
appointments feel like an upgrade to a higher class.
The interior design of the future C-Class comes
across as clear, sensual and with a host of new styling features.
The most prominent features include a reinterpreted centre console with a freestanding central
display and an innovative touchpad.
As on a smartphone, all the head-unit functions
can easily be operated using finger gestures.
Additional to the information in the central display, a head-up display is also new.
Like in a jet fighter, it projects important information as a virtual image directly into the driver’s
field of vision.
It appears to float over the hood, about two
metres in front of the driver, thus ensuring the driver is distracted less from the road ahead.
The system provides information on speed,
speed limits and navigation instructions and features a high-resolution virtual image which the
driver can adjust to their preferred settings.

Focus among the five
global best-sellers
and earns the top spot
as the best-selling subcompact car globally,
with 356,434 units registered in the first half
of 2013.
Combined, global
registrations of Ford’s
small cars — Fiesta and
Focus — total 946,143
vehicles for the first six
months of the year, representing an eight per
cent increase.

market for the car with
one-third of Focus
sales.
Customers are
responding enthusiastically to Focus in other
Asian countries, as
well.
Through September,
Ford reports Focus sales
are up 193 per cent in
Indonesia, 72 per cent
in both the Philippines
and Vietnam and 42 per
cent in Thailand.
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Ford Focus maintains its leadership as
the best-selling vehicle
nameplate globally,
based on Ford analysis
of the latest Polk global
vehicle-registration data
for the first half of 2013
Globally, Focus is up
20 per cent in the first
half of 2013 compared
with the same period
last year.
In addition, the
Fiesta ranks as the
fourth best-selling
vehicle overall and is
the world’s best-selling
subcompact vehicle
through June 2013.
Ford is the only
brand with two nameplates among the global
top five best-sellers
The Focus, the
best-selling vehicle
nameplate in the world
in 2012, retains the

Following its initial launch
in Korea, the all-new
Hyundai Genesis to be
introduced in major
markets next year.

TARPS!

Hyundai previews Genesis premium sedan
level of driving and road and
handling performance, cuttingedge safety and convenience
features.
The new Genesis has secured
best-in-class basic product competitiveness through many tests
carried out in various locations
worldwide, including the famed
Nurburgring in Germany.
Since its introduction in
2009, Hyundai’s unique design
philosophy — fluidic sculpture
— has evolved to the next level
and the new Genesis is the first
model to adopt the revamped
format.
Genesis boasts a premium
sports sedan look with refined,

Buick celebrates a Regal anniversary
The addition of the
Regal nameplate to the
Buick family goes back
40 years.
But, even today, the
Regal’s heritage as a
sporty, mid-size luxury
vehicle is strong as ever.
Introduced in 1973,
the Century Regal, as
it was originally called,
served as an upmarket
model in the Century
line and one of GM’s
first “personal luxury”
cars.
Designed with sporty
suspension characteristics and luxuries
aimed primarily at the
driver, the 1973 Regal
coupe sold 91,557 units,
helping Buick surpass
its 1955 all-time sales
record.
Launched with a
standard 350 cubic-inch
V8 engine, the Regal
would soon carve a
niche as a powertrain
innovator.
Among one of the
first to react to the ini-

Introduced in 1973 as the
Century Regal, Buick’s mid-size
Regal has been in production
for 40 years.

tial Arab oil embargo,
the 1975 Buick Regal
was the only mid-size
vehicle in the United
States to forego a standard V8 engine in favor
of a V6.
Just a few years
later, beginning with
the 1978 Regal, Buick
would lead a vanguard
on turbocharging for
better fuel economy.
This expertise would
later be used in creating
Regals that would be
recognized as some of
the most powerful and

significant cars of the
1980s.
Throughout four
decades — and now
in its fifth generation
— the Regal carries on
its sweeping design,
dynamic driving experience and powertrain
leadership.
Today’s Regal is
equipped with its mostpowerful standard
engine, a 2.0-litre turbocharged four-cylinder
producing 259 horsepower and 295 poundfeet of torque.

To help make the
most of traction in all
driving conditions, it
is also available with
advanced all-wheeldrive system that incorporates an electronic
limited-slip differential
and HiPer Strut front
suspension.
A 2.4-litre engine
with eAssist light electrification technology
is also available, delivering EPA-estimated
ratings of (U.S.) 25
m.p.g. city and (U.S.)
36 m.p.g. highway.

Hyundai recently held an
Genesis media preview for
the Korean media at Hyundai
Motor Group’s research and
development centre and officially unveiled the first image
renderings of the next Genesis
premium sedan.
The purpose of the prelaunch media event was to promote its domestic launch scheduled for later this year.
Staging its world-premiere in
Korea, the Genesis will debut in
major markets next year.
Its main strengths are premium and distinctive design,
best-in-class chassis system,
premium European brands’

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WESTCAN - Interested In Being Our Next Ice Road Trucker? Haul liquid, dry bulk or
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from mid-January to mid-April.
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BUSY Law Firm in Penticton
seeks full time conveyancing
assistant. Email resume in
conﬁdence to:
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Prestons Restaurant is Hiring One Assistant Restaurant
Manager for the restaurant on permanent basis.
Duties: Lead the day-to-day operations of the kitchen to ensure highest level of quality service and safety standards are
consistently met while executing quality, well presented menu items. Recruit staff and oversee staff training, set staff work
schedules and monitor staff performance, control inventory, monitor revenues and modify procedures and prices, resolve
customer complaints and ensure health and safety regulations are followed, negotiate arrangements with suppliers for food
and other supplies, negotiate arrangements with clients for catering or use of facilities for banquets or receptions, determine
type of services to be offered and implement operational procedures.
Wages: $17-$22 based on experience. Experience required: 1-3 years
Education: Completion of High School and basic English required.
Essential Skills: The successful candidate must exhibit role model standards, have excellent communication skills and be
able to provide outstanding customer service to the customers they serve.

Van Kam’s Group of Companies requires Highway linehaul
Owner
Operators
based in our Kamloops
terminal for runs throughout
BC and Alberta. Applicants
must have winter and mountain,
driving
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training.
We offer above average
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